Aces & Adventures

Aces & Adventures

Released Feb 2023

Aces & Adventures is a deckbuilding RPG with poker-powered combat. Craft your deck, combining poker hands with powerful ability cards. Journey through 13 fully-voiced campaigns to save the Life Tree, or tackle procedurally-generated runs in this strategic deckbuilder unlike any other.

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All announced content has been released
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Done
All announced content has been released
Medium confidence

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Evaluation

Aces & Adventures launched on February 23, 2023 and had an active post-launch development period that ran through mid-2023. The developer published a roadmap on March 14, 2023 outlining several planned features including a Deck Manager mode, Daily Challenges, new abilities, and a Steam Workshop deck-sharing feature. They then delivered on several of these commitments in quick succession: the free "Luck of the Paw" cosmetic DLC released on April 14, 2023; the Invernal Spiral deck-manager mode launched on April 17, 2023; the Invernal difficulty update added new encounters in May 2023; and the Challenge Mode with Daily Leaderboards shipped on June 15, 2023. The June 15, 2023 Challenge Mode update was the last developer communication of any kind across the 27 posts scanned. That is nearly three years of silence as of today (June 22, 2026). The March 2023 roadmap also mentioned features not yet delivered — specifically Steam Workshop deck sharing and handcrafted challenges — but the April 17, 2023 Invernal Spiral announcement noted "we're not done" and referenced more content coming soon. However, those promises were made in early-to-mid 2023, and with no developer communication since June 15, 2023, the evidence strongly suggests that active development has concluded. The roadmap items that were not explicitly shipped (deck sharing, handcrafted challenges) were low-priority items listed as "not yet under development" at the time of the March roadmap, and the developer's complete silence for nearly three years indicates these features were quietly dropped rather than still being worked on. The game has one released DLC (Luck of the Paw) with no unreleased DLC on the store. There is no live-service structure, no announced future content, and no sustained update cadence that would indicate ongoing development. The game launched as a complete product and received a meaningful burst of post-launch content in its first four months before going quiet.
Evidence
Challenge Mode update with Daily Leaderboards launched. This is the last developer communication on record.
news post · Jun 15, 2023 source content shipped
high
Developer roadmap revealed post-launch plans including new abilities, a Deck Manager mode, Daily Challenges, handcrafted challenges, and Steam Workshop deck sharing.
news post · Mar 14, 2023 source content planned
high

Content

1 of 1 released · no outstanding content

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Details

Publisher
Yogscast Games
Achievements
67
Platform
Windows
Controller
—
Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player

About this game




A poker-powered deckbuilding adventure
Three tables stand in a circle of stones in the misty heart of the old woods, forming a portal to a soaring world drawn from the pages of ancient Norse and Middle Eastern mythology. There, you will embark on a journey to save Cardrasil, the Life Tree, from the evil that gnaws at her roots. Each card of the enchanted deck she entrusts to you are leaves plucked from her very branches. Use them to evoke your abilities and unleash devastating, poker-powered attacks. Grow your own power, prune your own deck, but make haste! The seasons are changing; warmth won’t be free for long.


New Invernal Spiral Game Mode


Brand new way to play Aces & Adventures: The Invernal Spiral, a deck-manager mode inspired by games like Slay the Spire that allows you to build and curate your deck throughout a lengthier adventure.

  • Fast-paced gameplay delivered in highly consumable 10-20 minute sessions.
  • 5 Characters, each with their own library of abilities and 30 levels of advancement.
  • Unlock powerful traits and equipment as you progress through your journey.
  • 13 fully-voiced campaigns and 4 games for a total of 52 levels of escalating challenge
  • Procedurally generated runs ensure endless unique experiences.
  • Build your own decks, and upgrade your abilities to Elite and Legendary potency.




Gameplay
A unique combination of traditional playing cards and special ability cards sits at the heart of Aces & Adventures. You’ll craft a deck and choose how to use your resources – do you aim to defeat your opponents through attacks and spells, or play cards in order to potentially draw devastating high-value poker hands and obliterate your foes in a mighty blow?



  • Use the four suits as mana to activate your abilities.
  • Throw a single card as an attack; high card wins.
  • Go poker-powered and throw a pair, triple, four-of-a-kind, or valid five-card poker hand.
  • The defender tries to match the number of cards in attack. If the defender plays a better hand of that size, the attacker takes the damage
  • Combine buffs, debuffs, abilities and spells to unleash combination attacks of catastrophic power.


Last evaluated Jun 22, 2026
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